The Expressive Web – CSS3 and HTML5 features showcased by Adobe

paublyrne 11 years ago |

It is cute that I am rewarded with achievement messages and awards for simply looking at the different styles. That was certainly all the rage in 2011. I used to get quite excited getting to a new coffee shop level on Foursquare.

Sadly, the novelty wore thin.

Kiro 11 years ago | |

What do you mean? Gamification is still all the rage.

netghost 11 years ago | | |

Achievement unlocked!

danboarder 11 years ago | |

well, this site was published in 2011. I think it is still fun though.

tbassetto 11 years ago |

You should add [2011] to he title (published on 1st of August 2011).

bshimmin 11 years ago | |

I thought I remembered this from a while ago. I guess it's a permanent beta!

smilepet_26 11 years ago | |

Thanks for mentioning that. I forgot it anyway.

aikah 11 years ago |

Nothing new year, it has been here for years.(2011) they made it a bit after the job/flash backlash to show that Adobe cared about Open Techs. Well Adobe always cared about Open Tech, it was the main driving force pushing Ecmascript 4, ironically , Microsoft didn't want it,even though they had Jscript.net which was exactly ES4, and are now trying to push Typescript as an alternative to JS. We lost 8 years because Microsoft cared more about Silverlight than making Javascript better...

WorldWideWayne 11 years ago | |

Yeah sure, it's all Microsoft's fault in a decade where the majority of web users are using non-Windows mobile phones.

Gosh darn Microsoft for building a high quality cross platform application kit!

aikah 11 years ago | | |

Well, Microsoft has a huge responsability when it comes to the failure of ES4. No matter what you say. Especially since now everybody is talking about adding type declaration to javascript. We add these in ES4, MS clearly didn't want it because it would have made JS too powerful and threaten MS business.

cududa 11 years ago | | |

Yes we were either all there, and the new generation of devs have heard the stories. It doesn't matter anymore and it's exhausting to here people harp on decisions made 15 years ago by a bunch of old dudes who are retired now.

ZenPsycho 11 years ago | | |

15 years ago? the ES4 stuff happened in 2009-2010. that was 5 years ago.

As for whether the failure of ES4 was Microsoft's fault, no it wasn't. It was ES4's fault. Microsoft and Douglas Crockford merely pointed out the irreconcilable mistakes in design in ES4. The last thing Javascript needed was more bungled up mistakes and weird things in it. In particular, the issues with ES4 were around the packaging system and how it combined with namespaces. Upon close examination the design, lifted straight out of actionscript, just wasn't going to work on an ASYNCHRONOUS web.

Works fine in a binary blob of flash all downloaded in one go. But when you have to download individual files separately all hell would break loose.

aikah 11 years ago | | |

ES4 wasn't all or nothing.What does the type system or the class system has to do with asynchronicity? nothing.And by the way,one can totally LOAD classes and packages asynchronously in AS3. So that's not a valid argument. Crockford didn't like ES4 because it's Crockford like he doesn't like a lot of ES6 features, like he doesn't like the NEW operator. As for Microsoft they were just not interested in working on IE anymore, they didn't give a damn and just wanted to push Silverlight everywhere.

That's the story here. So your account of the events is a bit misleading.

aikah 11 years ago | | |

Yes it does matter. but you have to right to remain ignorant.

drivingmenuts 11 years ago | | |

And by cross-platform, you mean? That it works well on Microsoft and kinda-sorta on everything else?

smilepet_26 11 years ago | | |

yes, it works accross most browsers and in most operating systems. Mordernizer is tweaked so much to support some age-old browsers too.

jhack 11 years ago |

How did they get those numbers for browser support? For example, for CSS3 animations they say that 53.91% can view that feature and they source caniuse.com, but if you actually go to the feature page on caniuse.com it says there's over 88% support.[1]

[1] http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-animation

shdon 11 years ago |

It's not exactly been kept up to date, most obviously by not taking into account IE10 and later. Support for things like box-shadows and gradients is pretty much at least 90% now, close to 100% in the western world.

deepuj 11 years ago |

I remembered seeing this a long time ago - and just verified that it's vintage 2011.

passive 11 years ago |

I thought the burger building was a really nifty expression of media queries.

jdelatorre312 11 years ago |

Maybe it's just me, but the links don't seem to be working?

kenrick95 11 years ago | |

http://isup.me/http://beta.theexpressiveweb.com/

" It's just you. http://beta.theexpressiveweb.com is up. "

benbristow 11 years ago |

// Customizable by Agency - add new domain name

rileytg 11 years ago |

the expressive but not mobile web